JOELSON, Charles Samuel (1916-1999)
Democrat of New Jersey 
8th congressional district
Served in House 1961-1969
Biography
Representative from New Jersey; born in Paterson, Passaic County, N.J., January 27, 1916; attended the public schools, graduated from Montclair Academy; Cornell University, B.A., 1937; law school of Cornell University, LL.B., 1939; was admitted to the bar in 1940 and commenced the practice of law in Paterson, N.J.; enlisted in the United States Navy in 1942 and served in the Far Eastern Branch of the Division of Naval Intelligence; city counsel of Paterson, N.J., 1949-1952; deputy attorney general of the State's criminal investigation division, 1954-1956, and Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, 1956-1958; director of criminal investigation for the State of New Jersey, 1958-1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1961, until his resignation September 4, 1969, to become a judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey; died on August 18, 1999, in Freehold Township, N.J.; interment at George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus, N.J.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
